This is officially an award-winning blog

HNN, Best group blog: "Witty and insightful, the Edge of the American West puts the group in group blog, with frequent contributions from an irreverent band.... Always entertaining, often enlightening, the blog features snazzy visuals—graphs, photos, videos—and zippy writing...."

Both interesting, but the metro/nuclear map doesn’t do a good enough job noting rural joblessness, which is much better shown by the county by county. Cases in point are the UP and northern Maine, which don’t show up at all on the metro map.